We used to say at the Bukowski Agency that we look for writers who have the potential to make a living from their fiction. Not any more. Now we tell our authors to make sure ... Read More »
February 6, 2006
A year ago, if someone had told me that digital delivery of books would soon be the industry’s hottest topic, and that a popular Internet search engine would be largely setting the terms of the ... Read More »
February 6, 2006
Indigo has reported record earnings and increased sales across the board in its third quarter, which includes the key holiday season.In a news release issued late Thursday, the chain said superstore sales grew 11.7%, rising ... Read More »
February 2, 2006
From Joseph Boyden and Michael Crummey to Stephen Lewis and J.B. MacKinnon, familiar faces lead this year’s pack of nominees for the 2006 Writers’ Trust Awards.But among the authors and books shortlisted for the Rogers ... Read More »
February 2, 2006
With apologies to William Shakespeare, in Edmonton, the playwright's the thing. Or rather, the person – in the form of Don Hannah, Canada's first university playwright-in-residence.In January, Hannah began his one and a half-year stint ... Read More »
February 2, 2006
Montreal writer Michel Tremblay will be awarded the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix 2006 at the Montreal festival's opening ceremony on April 5, 2006. The prize, which has been given to the likes of ... Read More »
February 2, 2006
McArthur & Company president Kim McArthur has just purchased rights to two new books by Canadian Gardening founding editor Liz Primeau. The books’ subjects are made quite clear by their titles: Reinventing Our Gardens: Borrowing ... Read More »
February 1, 2006
Agent Sally Harding has optioned A. Lee Martinez’s Gil’s All Fright Diner to the Jim Henson Company.Agent Ashton Westwood of Westwood Creative Artists has optioned film and TV rights for Derek Finkle’s No Claim to ... Read More »
February 1, 2006
Agent Sally Harding has sold Australian rights to Simon Eliot’s Everything You Need to Know About the World to Allen & Unwin. Robert Mackwood of the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency has sold Japanese rights to ... Read More »
February 1, 2006
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